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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 07:16 Source

What we are seeing in many markets today is exactly what I expected to see when I made my 40 cents AUD call a few years ago. American exceptionalism is alive in the AI bubble but severely crimped by anti-Trumpian capital flows. The Chinese economy is slowly dying, but propped up as it pours money

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Your Democracy Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 04:28 Source

Senior officials in Poland and the Baltic states have blasted former German Chancellor Angela Merkel after she claimed they derailed potential EU-Russia talks on Ukraine months before the escalation of the conflict in 2022.

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Your Democracy Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 04:16 Source

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MacroBusiness Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 00:05 Source

Being a renter in Australia is like competing in the Hunger Games. After borders reopened in late 2021, temporary migrants flooded into Australia in record volumes: As a result, rents surged and vacancy rates collapsed: At the end of 2024, Cotality (formerly CoreLogic) reported that the percentage of household income spent on rents hit a

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Cheeseburger Gothic Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 16:59 Source

Man, I don’t know where I am this week. That holiday on Monday was always going to put the zap on my head, but I think I made it much worse by working through the weekend. Both Jane and I were on deadline, so we just pulled normal workdays on Saturday and Sunday, and then had Monday off, which was nice.

Then Tuesday, I caught up with Nick Pringle and his partner, Melissa, who I know from my time in publishing in Sydney. They were having a little break in Brisbane, so they popped out to my part of the world to have a coffee and a couple of toasted sangas. That was nice.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 16:36 Source

Queenscliff pier at sunrise   AUD/USD   EUR/USD USD/JPY GBP/USD Gold….we are now in parabola mode… West Texas Intermediate Brent   Australia 200   US S&P 500   UK 100   Japan 225       Videos                                    

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 14:00 Source

The NSW government has been criticised for blocking Freedom of Information (FOI) requests for access to taxpayer-funded reports on the likely impact of closing down coal-fired power stations on electricity prices. The government has commissioned at least 10 reports, studies, and presentations between June 2024 and July 2025 on the impact of its emissions reduction

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 13:06 Source

New Zealand’s economy is in a deep hole. As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, real GDP contracted sharply in the June quarter, drastically underperforming the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s forecast: The number of filled jobs in New Zealand has also contracted sharply: As a result, the Reserve Bank on Wednesday chose

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